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What year was the assassination attempt on Larry Flynt?

  • 1978

  • 1980

  • 1972

  • 1985

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In 1978, Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt survived an assassination attempt in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Joseph Franklin, a white supremacist opposed to Flynt's publication of racially mixed couples, shot Flynt at close range with a.44 caliber pistol, paralyzing him from the waist down.
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